Jia Zheng through the Red Mansions

Jia Zheng sighed and looked at Hongxi who had a concerned expression on his face, and hesitantly told what Aunt Zhao had done recently. All twisted.

Jia Zheng glared at him angrily: "Laugh if you want, don't hold back, if you really hold your face like this, you will cry."

The corner of Hong Xi's mouth curled up, and he moved closer to Jia Zheng, and when he spoke, his breath hit Jia Zheng's neck: "I don't know who is holding back, but the tiger whip is a great tonic, I don't know, Did the poor little thing cry?"

As Hongxi said, she still stared at Jia Zheng's belly with evil eyes, which made Jia Zheng's face turn red. Seeing Jia Zheng's blush, Hongxi's smile deepened.

"That's enough, I'm not telling you this to make fun of me." Jia Zheng tried his best to make his tone serious, but the blush on his face made his words very unconvincing .

Hong Xi sighed, with a somewhat lonely expression on his face, he wrapped Jia Zheng in his arms from behind, and his tone was low: "Am I making fun of you, you should know in your heart, I am also a man."

Jia Zheng turned his back to Hong Xi, so he couldn't see the expression on his face, but the low tone of his words could be clearly heard in his ears. Jia Zheng raised his forearm, clasped Hong Xi's arms behind his back Holding his hand, he didn't know what to say, and wondered if Aunt Zhao's weird things really worked. Jia Zheng felt that just hugging like this made his body undergo unspeakable changes.

Rationality told him that this would not work, so Jia Zheng tried hard to push Hongxi away, and said through gritted teeth, "This is still the Ministry of Household Affairs!"

Hong Xi's eyes lit up: "This is my office, no one can come in without my permission, what are you worried about? Or, if this is not the Ministry of Household Affairs, you will..."

Before he finished speaking, Prince Yong Yinzhen's voice sounded outside the door: "Hongxi, are you inside?"

The two hugging each other hurriedly separated, Jia Zheng tidied up the clothes that Hongxi had crumpled, then gave Hongxi a glare, trying his best to recover from his shortness of breath.

"Fourth Uncle, what's the matter?" Hong Xi went to open the door.

Yinzhen glanced at Jia Zheng who was in the room, and then his eyes fell on the ground. Jia Zheng and Hong Xi followed his gaze and looked over, their expressions changed. The thing on the ground was given by Hong Xi. Jia Zheng's sympathetic knot.

Just now Jia Zheng tried too hard to break free from Hongxi, and broke the concentric knot. The time when it fell to the ground was when Yinzhen spoke, so neither of them heard it fall to the ground. sound.

Jia Zheng quickly bent down to pick up the concentric knot, and quickly put it into his sleeve. Yinzhen didn't ask any questions, but just took a deep look at Jia Zheng, and met Prince Shangyong's black eyes. For no reason, Zheng shivered, and then comforted himself, with such a distance, and the engraved words were so small, Fourth Master would never see clearly what was on it.

"Fourth Uncle?" Seeing that the atmosphere was frozen, Hong Xi hurriedly opened his mouth to break the rigid atmosphere.

Yinzhen turned his gaze back, and said to Hongxi: "Today, the Gansu imperial censor urgently sent three letters to report the disaster situation. Huang Ama sent an order for you and me to enter the palace immediately."

Hongxi's expression also became serious, and he nodded solemnly, then changed into court clothes, and entered the palace with Yinzhen, and they didn't come back until the household department was closing time.

Jia Zheng returned to Jia's mansion in a restless mood. In the dead of night, he took out the concentric knot from his cuff, put it in his hand and stroked it repeatedly for a while, and then took out a small brocade box with a handful of knots on it. For the small lock, Jia Zheng put the concentric knot in it, locked it carefully, and hid the key in a depression of an inkstone, then put the brocade box back to the most hidden place under the table.

At that time, he was only moved by this kind of heart, and the happiness of the two people's names connected with each other made him forget, which is also the most deadly evidence.

Stretching out his hand to caress the chest that was originally fitted with a concentric knot, Jia Zheng felt that it was empty, and feelings that he had never felt before were swarming in, and they were about to swallow him up.

That night, Hong Xi was not having a good time either. He had just returned from the palace, and now the disaster in Gansu was so serious that it could not be delayed any longer. It was necessary to urgently dispatch food and money for disaster relief. Kangxi did not dare to send the money easily.

"The imperial court sowed money and grain, but the common people didn't eat a single grain of rice. Fourth brother, you told me this last time. Then this time, every grain of grain that I want to sow can be eaten." Send it to the common people!" Kangxi called Yinzhen by name, but his eyes fell very sternly on the Minister of the Ministry of Officials next to him.

Kangxi could no longer trust the officials in Gansu. At this time, he wanted to appoint an imperial envoy to personally escort the batch of grain and silver. This time, there was no room for loss.

The officials also complained in their hearts, but they just lowered their heads and dared not speak, and the sweat on their faces was about to drip.

"Huang Ama, my minister recommends someone. If it is him, then I will definitely live up to Huang Ama's trust." Yinzhen's words made Kangxi and Minister of the Ministry of Officials shine at the same time.

"Who is it?" Kangxi asked.

"Yangzhou's salt administration is as forested as the sea." Yinzhen replied.

"It's him?" Kangxi nodded slightly, "He's a pretty good candidate, but Yangzhou's salt roads can't be compromised. I transferred him to Gansu to escort grain and grass, so there's a shortage of salt."

When Kangxi said this, a trace of suspicion flashed in his eyes. Could it be that even the most worry-free fourth child has started to play tricks like this, and wants to put his own people in the rich vacancy of Yandao?Thinking of this, Kangxi's complexion slowly changed, but his tone remained unchanged: "Sir, tell me, who will make up for the Yangzhou Salt Administration?"

Yinzhen replied respectfully, "It's because I didn't think carefully."

Kangxi was stunned, could it be that he was suspicious, and the fourth child had no other intentions?Looking carefully at Yinzhen's face, Kangxi was relieved, and his face softened. He suddenly thought of something, and smiled: "No, let Lin Ruhai be the imperial envoy, Yangzhou, hmph, all the officials in Yangzhou I'm afraid you are already starving, and if we transfer Lin Ruhai away, it's time for them to show their heads."

Hongxi was anxious at the side, wanting to stop Kangxi, but he couldn't think of any reason. How could he still say that Lin Ruhai's wife is pregnant now, and Mrs. Lin is weak, if she follows Lin Ruhai to Gansu , I am afraid that there will be no such reason?

After walking out of Qianqing Palace, Yinzhen and Hongxi walked together, Yinzhen said calmly: "You were restless just now in the main hall, what's wrong?"

Hongxi shook her head: "It's nothing, it's just that I went to Yangzhou last year to live in Mrs. Lin Ruhai's residence. Mrs. Lin was just pregnant at that time, counting the days, she was about to give birth."

Yinzhen's face changed slightly, he nodded and didn't speak any more.

When Jia Zheng went to the Ministry of Household Affairs the next day, Hong Xi told him about the matter. Jia Zheng was also anxious when he heard that. Jia Min is now nine months pregnant, and counting the days, she is not far away from giving birth. Time, how can it stand up to such a toss?

Both of them were worried, but Yinzhen brought a surprising news. Kangxi learned of Lin Ruhai's situation, and granted Mrs. Lin a license not to move out of the Yan government office, but to open another branch for the office of the new salt government.

Hongxi and Jia Zheng knew that the fourth uncle must have intervened in this matter, so they were very grateful.

Yinzhen shook his head: "Master Lin is clean and honest, and the Qing Dynasty needs such a good official. I didn't help him deliberately, and you don't have to thank me."

Jia Zheng secretly sighed in his heart, this future Lord Yongzheng is notoriously cruel and ruthless master, but now it seems that he is still very careful and humane, it can be seen that people in the world still have to deal with him personally to see his true nature .

Both of them were only interested in being happy, neither of them saw Yinzhen's thoughtful look on Hongxi's face, and Hongxi obviously ignored it. Mrs. Lin is Jia Zheng's younger sister, so it was only natural that he was grateful and happy. As for him, at best, he lived in Lin's residence for a period of time, and his current performance is really too speculative.

Just when Jia Zheng was busy with official duties, earth-shaking changes took place in Jia's mansion. Three people, Wang Xifeng, Li Wan and Yingchun, managed the housework. Yingchun carefully settled the accounts of Jia's mansion in the past two years, and then First went to Jia Zhu's yard to find Li Wan, and the two went to Wang Xifeng's room together.

Yingchun knew very well that her elder sister-in-law Zhu had no intention of doing this, but her second sister-in-law Lian was different. In the future, she might still be in charge of this family. She was a girl, and the old lady gave herself a face, but she couldn't really Holding chicken feathers as an arrow, everything still needs to be discussed by the three of them, and in the end Lian's second sister-in-law must agree.

Yingchun is thoughtful, Li Wan is not stupid, of course she understands Yingchun's meaning, she is also very happy with Yingchun, but she is afraid that Yingchun will not let go of the power, and then she will be caught between her and Feng girl.

When they arrived at Sister Feng's yard, Sister Feng saw that it was Yingchun and Li Wan who came together. She knew that there must be something wrong, so she welcomed them in with a smile, and asked Ping'er to make tea. Take out the ledger.

"Now all the shortfalls have been made up. From this month onwards, the accounts will be clean. Second sister-in-law Lian and sister-in-law Zhu, we must plan carefully so that there will be no more deficits. I look at the front Expenses, other things are better, but the monthly money for the subordinates is a muddled account, I figured that although there are many people in our family, it is not as much as the month before we have to take out so much."

After Yingchun finished speaking, Wang Xifeng also sneered: "I was just about to tell you that I found Mrs. Zhou who was in charge of distributing monthly money yesterday. It turned out that my wife was in charge of distributing monthly money, and I never interfered." , now I have to deal with everything, and I have been married for a short time, how can everyone in this house know each other, so I asked Aunt Zhou to help me, lest some quick-witted people take advantage of this loophole to take two shares."

When Wang Xifeng said this, Yingchun and Li Wan nodded frequently, and said in unison: "It should be like this."

Wang Xifeng raised her beautiful Danfeng eyes, and continued: "But this week, Auntie Zhou actually said that the amount of this month's money is fixed, and she is given the full amount every month, and she is responsible for distributing it. That’s the way it is, it’s going to change when it gets to me.”

After hearing this, Yingchun's face sank, Mrs. Zhou, she knew that this so-called Mrs. Zhou belonged to Zhou Rui's family, the companion of the second wife. No wonder she would talk like this. Come to think of it, the people around Mrs. Wang must hate them to death.

"It seems that this matter has to be taken care of, Lian's second sister-in-law, do you have any ideas?" Yingchun already has a plan in mind, but at this time, it's better to ask Wang Xifeng first.

Sure enough, as Yingchun expected, Wang Xifeng already had a plan in her mind. When she heard Yingchun say this, she was not humble, and said, "I think starting tomorrow, I will call these people in in batches, first from the mother-in-law, then It's the maid, and finally the boy and the men outside. Everyone's name and the affairs they are in charge of must be recorded, and we should clean up the people in our house. This is a monthly money, so we can have a good number. It's time for the second girl to write."

Yingchun nodded, she thought the same way, only one thing, Yingchun said: "It's okay to say anything else, I'm afraid it's hard to see this boy and this man."

Wang Xifeng also nodded after hearing this: "That's it, then..." Wang Xifeng cast his eyes on Li Wan, "I must ask my sister-in-law to help me when the time comes."

Li Wan smiled: "I think it's better to talk to the old lady first. If the old lady agrees, I have nothing to say."

The three of them laughed, and when they went to greet Jiamu's room at night, Jiamu listened to their words and pondered for a while, then suddenly thought of Jia Qiang, and then said: "I did it when Brother Qiang came to help. That's right, since I want to see this kid and the man, I thought, I'd better find Brother Qiang, he's very clever and can help."

Speaking of this, Mother Jia asked Jia Zheng to come over, and asked him to go to the East Mansion to talk to Jia Zhen, and then asked Jia Qiang to come over to help for a few days.

Jia Zheng smiled helplessly when he heard Mother Jia's words: "Old lady, you don't know that Brother Qiang is no longer at the East Mansion."

Mother Jia was taken aback: "How do you say?"

Jia Zheng replied: "Brother Zhen means that Brother Qiang is grown up now, and it's time to separate out and set up his own family, so he gave Brother Qiang 50 taels of silver and five acres of land over the family temple. Who knows?" This brother Qiang didn't go there, and no one has seen him in the capital now, but they don't know where he went."

Jia's mother frowned when she heard this. Although Jia Qiang is not Jia Zhen's son, she is not an offshoot, but an upright great-great-grandson of Ning Guogong. Where to go, is this Jia Zhen so intolerable for other people?

But Jia Zhen is now the patriarch of the Jia family, and this matter is his own family matter. Even though Jia's mother was displeased, there was nothing she could do, so she just sighed: "Brother Qiang is suffering, and I don't know how this child is doing now. That's it."

Wang Xifeng has never seen this Jia Qiang before, but she also heard that the courtyard she lives in is still owned by Jia Qiang. Since she married in these days, she has seen the men in Jia's mansion. Jia Zheng and Jia Zhu are all focused on politics. But her father-in-law and husband only know how to eat, drink and have fun, and they don't care about others. Wang Xifeng thought this was too much, but she heard Ping'er say that the East Mansion is even more exaggerated than this, and now there is such a person in the East Mansion. Wang Xifeng was a little curious about the character, seeing the old lady's expression and tone, she who was always good at observing words and expressions quickly opened her mouth.

"I've heard about this Brother Qiang, and it's said that he's a good one. Don't be too sad, old lady. Since Brother Qiang is capable, he may have already set up a house in another place and is planning to marry a wife and have children. Catch the eldest son tomorrow and come back to greet the old lady."

The haze on Jia's mother's face dissipated when she heard this, she smiled and patted Wang Xifeng's hand: "You, what a monkey, you have lost all the cleverness of the people in the world!"

Jia Zheng looked at Jia Mu and Wang Xifeng and they chatted about homework again, and he was relieved. What he said to Jia Mu just now was of course the public version. Jia Zhen was displeased by being in the limelight, and Jia Qiang rejected him when Jia Zhen sought sex with him again. Then she became angry and kicked him out, saying that she gave him 50 taels, but in fact she didn't give him a dime.

Jia Qiang was also a man of integrity, and he didn't take any of the valuable things that Jia Zhen and Jia Rong gave him over the years. At that time, Jia Qiang said to Jia Zheng: "Let's leave those dirty things to them! "

Jia Zheng could see that Jia Qiang had some affection for Jia Rong. Seeing his determination, he couldn't help but said, "You don't know when you will come back, why don't you go and say goodbye to him?"

Jia Qiang sneered: "Him? He is living happily in that little Liu'er now, I don't want to go looking for it!"

After all, Jia Qiang looked at Jia Zheng, "Second Grandpa, I thought you would be the one who disdains me the most, but I didn't expect you to be such a person. If you hadn't rejected me at the beginning, I thought you would like me too." man."